The woman screams “I haven’t done anything” as several officers clamber on top of her.
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The video shows officers started using a taser when Williford was on the ground.
Three University of Alabama students are charged, two of them from Collierville, Tennessee, after an intense struggle with officers in Tuscaloosa.
The officer at the door is seen holding a male student by the arm and the shirt, demanding that he come outside.
You might think that took care of the noise complaint, but the bystander video shows an officer trying to drag a student out of the now-quiet apartment while his friends object. When advised the incident was being videotaped, he replied, “I do not give a (expletive)”.
Israel Hernandez-Llach was spray-painting an abandoned McDonald’s and ran away when confronted, failing to heed officers’ commands to stop, according to police accounts. When the student, who did not appear to be a physical aggressor, did not submit to the arrest, an officer entered the apartment, dragged the student out, tased him, and hit him with a night stick. Brandon James Williford, 21, was arrested on charges of Obstructing Governmental Operations, Harassment and Resisting Arrest.
The three students were taken into custody. Both begin a little after Tuscaloosa police arrive at the apartment, making it hard to see how and why the situation appeared to escalate. Chief Anderson said the first officer who responded was wearing a body camera.
At the end of the longest video, which lasts more than four minutes, an officer tells the individuals who are still inside the apartment to go upstairs or they will be arrested too. “And so, we’re going over a lot of video footage”, Anderson said.
The chief pleaded for persistence. “This investigation does not move at the speed of the Internet, ” he said.
“What I’m asking people to do is be patient and allow us to do an investigation”. “With just a little little bit of persistence, we’ll get there”.
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“Don’t be afraid of calling the Tuscaloosa Police Division”, he mentioned. Her father told me by phone his daughter is not physically hurt but emotionally, “she is pretty upset”.
